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Paying protection money not to get broken up for being monopolies. No amount of money will protect them from the whims of a mad king.

Bootlickers. At least this makes it easy to know what companies not to support

IDC, but if its overly verbose it probably is

Here are some examples that come to mind:

• Having enough food/water/essentials to make it through 3 days without electricity or gas (like what was recommend in Europe recently)
• having a plan of how you'll to keep in contact and meet with people you care about if there's no internet or cell service
• making sure whatever social media you use to voice dissent cannot be easily linked to your identity via email, photos, location data, etc.

Basically the same sort of disaster preparedness you would have normally, except the last bullet point

Even if the probability is less than 100% it is a good idea to prepare while there's still time to do so. Its not about paralysis, its about emergency preparedness and taking necessary precautions.

Should still be ready for the eventuality that he tries to impose martial law, just like what happened in Korea recently

The solution is quite simple: don't voluntarily give any private information to chatbots. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy when using chatGPT or any LLM hosted online.

So that's how they're paying to detain people in El Salvador? The US is paying El Salvador $6 million per year to illegally detain immigrants indefinitely

At some point, the vetting process will end up being more time consuming than actively moderating the instance, it will still not be 100% effective.

I don't doubt that bad things are happening at CECOT, but I need more credible evidence than a blurry image from google maps before jumping to conclusions.

Yeah, seems like the US is just looking for a justification to go to war w China

They work well when being correct doesn't matter